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3.00 Credits
This course aims to help students to understand Korean society and culture. Starting from its unique historical background, students will explore and discuss various aspects of Korea such as religion, thoughts, literature, politics, arts, life styles and pop culture ("Korean Wave") throughout the course. The in-depth examination of traditional features will guide students to extensive understanding of contemporary phenomena in Korea. Lecture-based teaching format will be enriched by a variety of supplementary channels such as movies, documentaries, and invited speakers in the field.
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3.00 Credits
Do you know Korean mythology? Korean mythology has not only the universality of East Asian myth and world myth, but also the particularity of it. The particularity of Korean myth is shown by Mooga, the shaman's song. We will study such a universality and particularity of Korean myth. Specially, in the view of comparative mythology, we will approach to Korean myth. Through this course, students will be able to understand Korean mythology, but Korean literatures and cultures as well.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the methods for conducting field research, reviewing live musical events and evaluating World Music recordings. Through discussions about music from South Africa, Mexico, the Philippines, Indonesia and China, students learn about the musical practices of these other cultures and understand their motivations for musical production. Challenges faced by musicians from colonialism, racism, nationalism, cultural imperialism and commercialism are also engaged. In addition, students are encouraged to `discover' world music among the diasporic communities within their own societies, and get the opportunity to perform music of some of the cultures studied.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores musical production in India and China, the "new cultural cores" that are gradually replacing the USA and Western Europe in cultural influence in Asia and the Asian diaspora. Taking into account these countries' colonial and semi-colonial histories, their political and economic development, and the increasing transnational movement of their citizens, this course charts the development of commercially successful music from these countries - bhangra; Bollywood; Chinese pop; and fusion music popularized by bands like Twelve Girl Band and composers like Tan Dun in films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - that have not only captured Asia but the West as well, and shaped the imagination of what Indian-ness and Chinese-ness are, both to the Chinese/Indians and non-Chinese/Indians. In addition, this course examines Filipino entertainers, a group of musicians who provide live entertainment of a transnational capacity throughout Asia. They represent important channels for the dissemination of Indian and Chinese popular music in that region. Globalization and cosmopolitanism theories will be discussed in this course.
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3.00 Credits
Historically, Asia represented massiveness in terms of area, population, and resources. In our present century, Asia will come to represent massiveness in economic, technological, and military terms. Given the prominence of Asia as an integrated continent with renewed global significance, knowledge of this continent, its history, its people, its cultures, and its aspirations for the future become important to better understand the world we live in. This course is designed to provide insights into Asia by means of its cinema. The course is designed around weekly lectures, linked to a representative film, and augmented with discussions that integrate the critical readings with the films. We will cover a wide range of Asian nations and subjects ranging from popular commercial box office hits to critically acclaimed artistic masterpieces created by Asian filmmakers to highlight Asian experiences. Some of the national genres that we will address include Bollywood masala films, Japanese anime, Hong Kong martial arts, and Korean hallyu (culture wave). Prior knowledge of Asia and/or the cinema is not required. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The course is designed to introduce students to Asia on a broad scale.
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0.00 Credits
Certain films will be viewed for further discussion in class.
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3.00 Credits
A survey course introducing students to the major themes and genres of Chinese literature through selected readings of representative texts.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of Japanese poetry, fiction and drama from the earliest times through the 20th century. All texts are in English and no special knowledge of Japan or Japanese is required. The course is divided into four units. We will begin with the development of court poetry (waka) as found in the Manyoshu (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves) and the first Imperial Anthologies, followed by episodes from the Tales of Ise, and selected chapters from Murasaki Shikibu's masterpiece of courtly love, The Tale of Genji (ca. 1000 A.D.). In addition to social and historical factors influencing the development of a courtly aesthetic, we will also consider the influential role played by Buddhism and Chinese literature. In the second unit we will look at how Japanese literature developed under the patronage of the samurai aristocracy during Japan's 'medieval' period (12-16th centuries) with readings of Noh plays, linked verse (renga) and philosophical essays such as An Account of My Hut and Essays in Idleness. For the third unit, we move to the Early Modern Period with the haiku poetry of Basho, short stories by Saikaku (Five Women Who Loved Love), and The Love Suicides at Amijima, a play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. For the last unit, we will read a selection of modern stories and plays.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to trace the changes in Japanese literature, which itself is based on the changes in society. The seventh century is viewed as the start of Japanese literature. Authors then developed their narratives, moving from magical thought toward realistic description. In the tenth and eleventh centuries court ladies analyzed themselves from the woman's viewpoint in works such as The Tale of Genji. After the thirteenth century, warrior lords appeared in the literature, establishing a new literary tradition. The development of the status of the ordinary people, meanwhile, changed medieval literature into a popular medium through forms such as haiku.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to survey modern Japanese literature from its early stage to the present. Modern Japanese literature is the product of modern Japanese society. The making of modern Japan started in the middle of the nineteenth century when the western powers put pressure on Japanese political leaders to change an outdated feudalistic system. The new system, however, merely preserved the old ways under the guise of modernization. Modern Japanese literature depicts this mixture of the old and the new and offers the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of the people who constitute modern Japanese society.
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